Wes.W

You may be right about sailors and concertinas in the great age of sail, although I've seen many prints of sailors with accordians in such books as Hugill's Songs of the Sea. But I really would like to hear from someone who has some familarity with my initial query, if that is possible here.

As my students used to say so many years ago:

A water, a water everywheres,
Nor any a drops to drinks.